Didn't you say that we would lose money after filming?

At this very moment, in the outskirts of a county in England, stands a large castle.

The castle, named 'Arunvik Castle', is located in the town of the same name.

This castle is a medieval building, designed in the 18th century by a renowned court architect.

It covers a very large area, with a large green space, well-planned groves and small slopes.

While boasting beautiful and pleasant scenery, this ancient castle also belongs to the Dukes of Northumberland.

Even today, before it was acquired by the Heye Group and used as a filming location, family members still lived in the castle, making it the second largest inhabited castle in England.

Despite being over 700 years old, Aaronwick Castle remains remarkably well-preserved, with both the magnificent and sturdy castle and the treasured furnishings inside intact.

After all, the ducal family that owns it invests a lot of money in its maintenance every year.

It basically doesn't have the structural defects or aging problems that many castles have now.

In reality, castles are not comfortable to live in and are no match for modern buildings.

After all, this thing was originally designed to serve as both a fortress and a residence. Even a castle specifically designed for residence still needed to take into account the safety of the lord and the nobles living there.

Therefore, the interior is often designed to prioritize safety over comfort, resulting in a cold and damp environment. Many rooms are also perpetually dark, relying on torches for lighting, and snakes, insects, and rodents are persistent problems that must be addressed.

However, although it is not too old, the castle still has similar problems: it is very damp and cold inside.

Staying inside for a long time can actually give you a creepy feeling.

Now, this castle has become the first filming location and will be the main filming location for the Harry Potter series.

At this moment, the interior of the castle's hall is already filled with camera positions and green screens, and many young actors are about to begin their first round of filming.

Among them are the actors who played the three little ones: Jiajia as Hermione, Dennis as Harry, and a goofy red-haired boy named Tersch who played Ron.

There are two scenes to be filmed today.

One scene is the Sorting Hat scene before Harry enrolls in school.

There's also the scene where Harry and his friends first clash with Malfoy and his group, where Malfoy shows kindness to Harry and belittles his companions, only to be rejected by Harry.

Since most of the young actors were acting for the first time, their situation had to be taken into consideration. Therefore, at the beginning, Xia Yuan did not set too many high-intensity shooting tasks for them, but arranged the intensity within a reasonable range.

At first, two scenes a day was the most suitable.

Soon, the green screen was set up, and each group was ready. Xia Yuan gave the instructions: "Very good, children, go to your respective positions as I told you before."

With a large number of people involved, coordination becomes difficult, especially since this production will also utilize some synchronous sound recordings.

Besides the main child actors, the remaining hundreds of child actors also took their seats at the four long tables representing the four academies. The first-year students who were newly enrolled, which is where the main characters were, stood at the designated positions outside the door.

The rest of the professional actors who played professors sat in the classroom seating area, including the highly respected master actor who played Dumbledore.

Chu Zhongtian was not among these professional actors.

Is Xia Yuan planning to break with tradition and not include Chu Zhongtian this time?
That's not the case. Actually, he had arranged a role for Chu Zhongtian, but it's not his turn to appear yet.

Or you could say that he didn't even get a chance to appear in this film.

The role he assigned to Chu Zhongtian was Sirius Black, Harry's godfather. This role is crucial in the later stages of the story, and Xia Yuan considered the difficulty in controlling the character, as well as the fact that the image was indeed suitable for Chu Zhongtian at his current level, so he gave him the role.

Sirius Black is a wizard born into the Black family, a pure-blood family that upholds extreme pure-bloodism.

However, he was also a complete outlier within the Black family.

Because the Black family has been Slytherin for generations.

He was the only exception, which led to a very strained relationship with his family.

His Animagus was a huge black dog.

He entered Hogwarts in 1971, graduated from Gryffindor House in 1978, and joined the Order of the Phoenix that same year.

He was tall and slender, with a handsome and elegant appearance, elegant and beautiful black hair, and a pair of striking gray eyes. Every gesture he made carried an air of nonchalant arrogance, unrestrained and dashing.

He also played a very important role in Harry's upbringing and always secretly cared for his godson.

This is the role that Chu Zhongtian should play.

Sirius Black didn't appear in the first movie, so he's just watching from the set now, eating sunflower seeds.

Xia Yuan, on the other hand, had also changed into Snape's makeup and costume, sporting a slicked-back hairstyle and wearing a heavy black cloak that could puff up like a bat, sitting in the corner with a gloomy look in his eyes.

Assistant director Xiao Wang logged in again to take over the game, holding the script that Xia Yuan had already prepared, and began to prepare to direct according to the script.

"Alright, everyone to your positions, three, two, one!"

"Action!" the script supervisor commanded, making the final decision.

Snapped!
On set, Jenny, the actress playing Professor McGonagall, instantly got into character and said, "Come with me, kids."

Then, in the camera movement area, Xiao Wang picked up a walkie-talkie from the director's seat: "Okay, props team, open the door."

Rumble.

The grand and magnificent banquet hall doors opened via a mechanism.

Jenny led a group of child actors into the banquet hall.

Inside the banquet hall, thousands of candles were suspended in mid-air, all burning, and wax dripped continuously onto the young and older actors below.

In situations like these, you usually just have to endure it.

As the first-year students entered, a suspended camera followed them, filming their backs, before switching to film the three boys' faces.

The first line belongs to Jiajia.

"This sky isn't real; it's the ceiling that's been enchanted to look like this. I read about it in 'Hogwarts: A History of the School.'"

Jiajia said it with a playful yet slightly proud tone.

Dennis and Tersch, standing nearby, looked around in utter bewilderment, their eyes filled with a mixture of innocence and utter stupidity. (End of Chapter)